The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-06-17
NEWS AxDOTHER NOTINGS.

She is 9S years old, can walk miles at a
stretch, and tas - grandchildren
There is a lady in Penola, Ca, who is
the mother of y living children, the eldest
of whom is rs years of age and the youngest
Il, and she never las seen them all together.
George Vessel, an Inebriate, was found
dead in cesspool in Pitts5urg on Monday
afternoon on premises formerly owned by
him 1t is supposed that he fell in while
drunk aud was suffocated.
An aged African at Lancaster, S. c..
who Is never seen without an ancient-loCg-
ing umbrella and a carpeU-b bag in his hands,
says he never knows when it is going 10 rain,
and when be gets anything he has something
tn put it into.
Daniel ) Kern, travelling salesman and
shipping clerk for A. J. Kieppinger, whole
sale 9. Ocer at Allentown, has absconded,
and his account is nearly 5000 short. the
amount having been secured by him on
recen: collecting trip.
A wedding ring, first worn in 1s49 came
into the possession OF the granada ghter of
the original possesSor, a ROchster, Pa. girl,
and she lost it Now. after six years, it has
been found in u garden which had been regu-
ariy worked every year.
While a number of men were examining
a charge which had failed in Rain & Kauff-
mans stole quarry, near Lessport, BeTks
county, on Monday 1t exploded, fatally in
juring Francis p. Kaufman and Philip
Schaeffor, and severely injuring three
others.
A human skeleton was unearthed the
other day on Passaic street. Newark, by
gang of wOTkmen while grading the street.
The 5eeth indicate that 1t was that of man
of about 80 years of age. 1t is supposed to
have been a negro slave, and has probably
been in the ground for 100 years.
Robert Stevens, of Tarentum, who was
terribly Injured in an explosion of gas at
gas we'll at Macksburg, Ohio, has sued John
Denman and Mills & MuIlin, of MacksbuIg,
for $4,000 damages. charging that they
knowingly subjected him to the danger
which! re- ulted in his injuries.
Thomas Blair. of Shippensburg, Pa
stopped train the other day in time to avert
a calamity. Some crOSs-ries had been placed
on the track. Blair was overwhelmed with
thanks at the time. but he has since been
arrested and held in 50 900 BAIL charged
with putting the ties on the track himself.
One day last week about forty men at
Helena, Mont, took from Jail a negro who
attempted to outrage Mrs Park and hanged
him to a tree near the Court House The
negro vas captured few minutes after he
left his intended victim. he confes sed
before dying.
Neb.. taa, conductors and braksmen on the
Union Pacific Railroad have been carrying
on systematic robbery Ike that exposed
some months ago on the Panhandle Road.
No arrests are vet reported. Crews run
ming east from Cheyenne seemed to be
deeply involved.
Last fall Mrs. Albert Brooks, OF Juniata
Mich, went to Denver to receive $50, 600 aud
other property, her interest in an uncle's
estate. She has Bet returned to her home
and efforts to find her have not availed. 1t
is supposed she Las been kidnapped and is
being held until her captors get all her
money from her.
"A sleeping car of the Buffalo express,
on the New York Central railroad, jumped
, a switch on Friday last, at Spuyten DuyviI,
at seven o'clock in the morning. The car
was overturned and badly smashed. The
, occupants, twenty eight in number, were
severely igstied and several were bruised
but 20 serious Injuries are reported.
Thomas Bevens, aged fifty five years,
and his wife. from Denver, Col, guests at
the Occidental Hotel in New York, were
discovered in their room on Monday uncon-
sciOus ana all but smothered by gas. They
had apparently blown ont the gas instead Of
turning il OF when retiring 1t is probable
they will recover. The Beveuses were on
their way to Europe.
An Iowa man has just shipped 800, 600
young pine trees from Black River Falls,
! Wis, to Iowa, to be transplanted. He has
made shipment nearly every year for the
. last 80 years, and says that his experience is
, that these trees are the most thrifty and
, hardy and make the best wind breaks of any
, tree that has yet been tried on the iowa
: prairies.
/ Anna Rodgers, a young lady employ ed
= at a steam laundry in MeadyilIe, came near
/ being The victim of fatal accident Monday
afternoon. Her long hair was caught by a
rapidly-revolving sh aft, and in an instant
was wound up 10 her head. Her screams
brought assistance, the engine was stopped,
and she was released before being seriously
Eurt.
Samuel LaDdis, of Middletown, Dauphin
county, hired horse and carriage on Sat
urday night to convey his wife from the
country 70 her home. The animal being
observed in front of Lands house for sew
eral hours, search was made for the occu-
pant of the building, who was found dead
alongside of his bed. having expired, it sup
posed, while undressing. The v idOw Of the
deceased was his fifth wife.
"A Connecticut lumber man is lunning
down the Connecticut river more than 90,
600 900 of spruce lumber, a much larger
quantity than he or any other person has
/ ever before driven in one season. To per.
form the labor in getting this immense
amount of lumber down requires over 6OC
men and 80 horses, at an expense of more
than 81, 900 a day.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says that a
woman named Sewers, living on the TIttle
farm, Derry township, claims to be be-
/ witched through the influence of a neighbor
Between 4 and O'Clock every morning she
imagines large black cat is before her
which goes through all manner of ugly con-
tortions, meanwhile keeping its eyes riveted
upon her. Many people have visited the
arm and seen the peculiar phan tasy which
has possession of the woman.
A Times special from Columb Ia, S. C..